Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Environmental and Natural Resource Policy Analysis
The course develops a framework for the economic and policy assessment of environmental problems including the notion of market failures, alternative economic incentives and the valuation of environmental resources. In addition, principles of the management of renewable and depletable resources are examined. A number of applied settings are used to demonstrate the principles taught in the course.
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Qualitative Methods
Prepares students to understand and use qualitative analytic methods with data collected through interviewing, focus groups, archival research, text analysis, and other means.
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Race, Policy, and Administration
This course explores the role of race and ethnicity within public administration and policy. Considering the salience of race in American political life, it is important to understand how it interacts with the bureaucracy and the policy process. Emphasized are issues of representation, inequities in policy outcomes, and social constructions of minority populations in policy and administration. Specifically, the course covers the interaction of race with education, health, welfare, criminal justice, and employment. The course also engages the challenges related to managing and administering policies to racial and ethnic populations.
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Nonprofit Policy Advocacy and Law
This course examines both how policy influences nonprofits as well as how nonprofits impact policy. It addresses the role of nonprofit organizations in the public policy process including advocacy strategies and techniques and examines how laws shape nonprofit involvement in that process. The course also reviews state and federal policy that enables and regulates nonprofits, including legal forms, tax exemption, fundraising regulations, and employee compensation.
Course Level: Graduate
Selected Topics: Non-recurring (1-6)
Quantitative Methods for Policy Analysis III
This course applies advanced econometric techniques to policy analysis. The course covers extensions to the linear regression model, including instrumental variables and panel-data methods, as well as an introduction to the estimation and interpretation of nonlinear regression models, such as those for limited dependent variables, quantile regression, sample-selection corrections, and survival analysis.